map accordion book DIY

In this age of digital pictures, it’s good to remember that images can mean something a little more when physically printed out, rather than just living on instagram or facebook. While the idea of keeping big albums of photographs now seems so old-fashioned and time consuming for a lot of us, creating a small book that celebrates a single event is much more doable project!

Accordion books are a very simple bookbinding project that anyone can accomplish. Making a book with a few pictures that represent a shared memory is a perfect gift to give a friend. In celebration of summer road trips, we came up with the idea of an accordion book made from a vintage map! Make sure to check out our Road Trip Pinterest board for some fun inspiration!

Here is a fun DIY video that shows how you can make this book:

In addition, here are the step-by-step instructions for what is shown in the video

(Note about road maps) Since we’re all using google maps now and GPS to get around, you can usually find an old used map somewhere, pretty easily. You can also get them from the AAA or some gas stations still sell them. We often find them at garage sales, where an entire box worth is a buck or two!

While we are on the subject of old maps, we’re absolutely gaga over these woodblock prints done on old maps by the Best Made Company.

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We are Susie & Heidi Bauer and together we are Rock Scissor Paper. In case you were wondering... we are sisters, best friends and business partners. We are so happy to have you here and hope that you will stay a while and share in our happy world!